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January 17, 2008

When I originally started this blog, it was going to be a place where I could share teaching with anyone who would care to listen. Which isn't necessarily a bad idea, but the problem came because I put a lot of pressure on myself to only enter posts that were well thought and and researched. That's a problem because it makes it all a little too sanitized. And something that I'm coming to realize is that sanitized teaching is like hiding behind a facade.

So I'm back, but I want to take an entirely new approach. That doesn't mean that I won't, on occasion, spend the time to put together a well thought out post, but that isn't going to be the emphasis.

What I want to do is take a journey. It's a journey of faith (and I will get back to that topic soon) and also one of abundance. For too long I have thought in terms of what I have to do and what God can't do, or won't do for some reason. What I have ended up doing is thinking in terms of limitation and scarcity rather than abundance. And because that way of thinking is habitual, it has caused, and continues to cause, problems in my life.

Something that I want to accomplish through this blog is that I just simply share with everyone the process of change that I'm going through as I go from scarcity to abundance.

One thing that I won't be doing here is talking about reaching a certain level of financial wealth. I do believe that having more money than we need for our day-to-day lives is part of abundance, and I am not, like so many others, going to say, "Abundance is more than just money..." Yes, it is MORE than that but it also definitely includes that. We can't live an "abundant" life unless we have more money than we can consume, in other words until we have enough coming in that we can freely (emotionally) give and serve others with our treasure (money) as well as our time and talents.

The posts may not be as neat and pretty, although I hope that they will still be easily understood, but I hope that they will be real.

February 14, 2007

Regardless of what you think about McDonalds, whether or not you'd ever set foot in one or if you all too frequently give in to those Big Mac attacks, there is something that we can learn from Ray Kroc's little franchise. When he first looked at the McDonald's restaurant in California, Ray saw something that the McDonald brothers hadn't seen. He saw a way to create an empire the eventually led to great success.

December 13, 2006

We are almost constantly in a quandary of one kind or another. If our lives are not what we want them to be, we end up stuck in a dilemma. The problem arises because we begin to wonder: Does God want something else for me? Or am I supposed to be in this struggle?

The question that occupies our minds is: What is God's will for my life? And while there are as many answers to that question as there are people in the world, there are still a few general principles that we can apply. And when it comes to prosperity, or money, the answer may surprise some people.

November 27, 2006

It's not a new problem, and it probably started almost immediately. How did Peter, the struggling fisherman, feel about Matthew the wealthy tax collector? Did the disciples have debates about money on top of their usual arguments about who would be the greatest?

Probably since before the beginning of the Christian church, there have been discussions about prosperity. The questions of whether or not a person can be rich and spiritual have probably been raging for millennia, maybe even since the beginning of man's existence. And the idea that wealth was the sign of God's favor on a person's life was prevalent even in Jesus' day.